Barber’s Vanessa: the hopeless yearn for immortal love
Is Barber’s Vanessa a mirror of the composer relationship with Menotti? Or is it simply a decadent tale of hopeless life choices?
Stephen Sondheim
A lifetime on Broadway: with works like West Side Story, Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim is possibly the greatest lyricist ever.
Bernstein’s Candide
“We have a little trouble”: Candide opened in Boston for three weeks of tryouts but the dress rehearsal overran catastrophically and…
Giancarlo Menotti: from The Consul to My Name is: Woman
The ties between My Name is: Woman and The Consul run deep in Magda Sorel’s famous aria “Papers”, a timeless story that keeps repeating itself over and over again.
Tango: the interpreters
A history of tango would not be at least partially complete without mentioning some its greatest interpreters: composers, lyricists and the women of tango